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Very Scary Things

By PAUL KRUGMAN 12 August 2007

I'm sure many have been following the financial meltdown over recent weeks. Financial Times video diarist John Authers ended his report yesterday...

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Waiting For the End of the World

By Jeff Strahl 10 August 2007

Would a financial crisis mean recession, depression or revolution? And haven’t we been waiting a long time for this liberating, or devastating, cata...

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Lunch Poems

By Howard Slater 9 August 2007

An ordinary ordinance day. A bureaucratic pounding. Not a ritual, a procedure: dirty pieces of silver paper. *** The zags are cut lightly int...

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Editorial

By Josephine Berry Slater 9 August 2007

And here are the Fascist fortresses, made with the cement of pissoirs, here the thousand identical luxury buildings for executives transubstantiated w...

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A Bridge Collapses

By New York Times Editorial 9 August 2007

Back to the bridge. Apparently the New York Times is pissed off about last week's Minneapolis bridge collapse, and the steam pipe that blew up ro...

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The 3 P's − PFI, Private Equity, and Pensions

By Rob Ray 9 August 2007

As money expands, society contracts. In the UK the unholy trinity of Private Finance Initiatives, Private Equity and Pensions embodies this logic, tur...

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Synaesthesia and Reductionism at the Venice Biennale

By Nick Brooks 8 August 2007

This year Europe has experienced what has been touted as 'the summer of art'. With the rare cyclical alignment of the Venice Biennale, Art Bas...

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The Conditions of Possibility: Tributes to Marina Vishmidt 1976-2024 (I)

By Mute Collective 6 June 2024

Marina Vishmidt, a much loved and deeply formative contributor for our magazine from its early years, tragically passed away at the end of April. The ...

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Mute Archive Move

By mute 27 June 2022

This June and July the Mute magazine archive is being moved from its current home in a shipping container a hundred miles north of London to a new smaller space in Berlin.

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